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| #3691 | | Admiration, n.:
Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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| #3692 | | Adore, v.:
To venerate expectantly.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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| #3693 | | Adult, n.:
One old enough to know better.
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| #3694 | | Advertising Rule:
In writing a patent-medicine advertisement, first convince the
reader that he has the disease he is reading about; secondly,
that it is curable.
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| #3695 | | Afternoon, n.:
That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning.
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| #3696 | | Age, n.:
That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we
still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise
to commit.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| #3697 | | Agnes' Law:
Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
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| #3698 | | Air Force Inertia Axiom:
Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness.
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| #3699 | | air, n.:
A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the
fattening of the poor.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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| #3700 | | Alaska:
A prelude to "No."
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